For Advent of Code 2021 day 12 it took me a while to get going though for reasons unrelated to coding, Norovirus is not pleasant! So when I finally did the puzzle, I didn’t find it as difficult as I thought it would be based on some of the messages on the #adventofcode channel. The puzzle started with With your submarine’s subterranean subsystems subsisting suboptimally This deserves a medal in itself.| beny23.github.io
Advent of Code 2021 day 15 took us back to the 2-dimensional maps we first encountered on Day 11 and Day 9. We had to parse a map again, and this time we had to find the shortest path from the top left to the bottom right. This was the first time when a homespun algorithm just did not cut the mustard, and I had to wrack my brain (i.e. use Google) to do a bit of algorithm research.| beny23.github.io